Cron and DST patches

[Jason.Shein-V7Ve2fXh0sTQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org]

owner-tlug at ss.org wrote on 03/21/2007 11:49:49 AM:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:46:11AM -0400, Jason.Shein at iovate.com wrote:
> >I just wanted to inform everyone, as I have discovered, that after
> >applying the DST patches to some systems the cron daemon has to be
> >restarted or it will run an hour late. 
> 
> Which distributions?  Which versions?
> 

I have now witnessed this on the following:

CentOS 4.3 & 4.4
Leagcy RedHat

Looking around on the forums it seems that all distributions may be 
affected
by this, so I am now restarting the cron daemon on all servers. I will 
post
later if I discover issues on my Debian & Gentoo servers.

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